This author asked "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break Earth's soil at all" in "Futility", and wrote of an angel ignored by Abraham, who "slew his son / and half the seed of Europe, one by one" in his poem "Parable of the Old Man and the Young".  He describes [*] "hasty orisons" and asks "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" in his "Anthem for Doomed Youth", while another poem by this friend of Siegfrie
This author asked "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break Earth's soil at all" in "Futility", and wrote of an angel ignored by Abraham, who "slew his son / and half the seed of Europe, one by one" in his poem "Parable of the Old Man and the Young".  He describes [*] "hasty orisons" and asks "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" in his "Anthem for Doomed Youth", while another poem by this friend of Siegfried Sassoon mentions "that old lie" amidst an attack with poison gas. For 10 points, name, the World War I-era British poet of Dulce et Decorum Est.
This author asked "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break Earth's soil at all" in "Futility", and wrote of an angel ignored by Abraham, who "slew his son / and half the seed of Europe, one by one" in his poem "Parable of the Old Man and the Young".  
Wilfred {Owen}